branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches
The function __builtin_expect returns long type (see the gcc documentation), and so do macros likely and unlikely. Unfortunatelly, when CONFIG_PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES is selected, the macros likely and unlikely expand to __branch_check__ and __branch_check__ truncates the long type to int. This unintended truncation may cause bugs in various kernel code (we found a bug in dm-writecache because of it), so it's better to fix __branch_check__ to return long. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1805300818140.24812@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 1f0d69a9 ("tracing: profile likely and unlikely annotations") Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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